Container for automobile registration cards



Patented Jan. 19, 1926.

PATENT OFFICE.

JACK BROWNE, 0F OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA.

`CONTAINER FOR AUTOMOBILE REGISTRATION CARDS.

Application led August 26, 1925. Serial No. 52,620.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JACK BRowNn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Oklahoma City, in the county of Oklahoma and State ofOklahoma, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inContainers for Automobile Registration Cards, of which the following isa specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention pertains to containers for automobile registration cards,or certificates, and the like, for the purpose of identification of thecar, and to identify definitely that the car has been registered and thetax thereon paid, and for the purpose of preventing the stealing of thecar and the changing of the identification card thereby assisting tocover up the theft.

v The object of my invention is to provide a device of the character,described, which will be easily and economically made and installed,easily applied to `the instrument board of any make of car; permits easyexamination and inspection of the card at any time; prevents the openingof the container and the changing of the certificate of registrationwithout easy detection; protects the State through which the certificateissues in their certificates regularly issued, and from changing thosealready issued to be attached to other cars on which the tax has notbeen paid and the certificates not regularly issued therefor.

The invention, novel features, `details of construction, combination ofparts, and other objects of the invention will be hereinafter moreparticularly set forth, illustrated in the accompanying one-sheetdrawing, and pointed out in the appended claims.

Reference is hereby made to the drawing forming a part of thisapplication, of which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the assembled container;

Figure 2 is a sectional view of the device on the line A-A of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a side elevation view of the seal;

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the slide for containing theregistration certiiicate when slipped into the container.

Likel characters of reference designate like parts in all the figures.

The device consists of a metal container mounted on the instrument-board12 of a car, and on the side of said instrumentboard facing the frontseat of the car, and is held securely in place by male screw members 11therethrough, and washers 9 around said male screw members 11 and on theoutside' of said instrument-board 12, said male screw members arehelically threaded to fit similarly threaded female screw members 10 onthe inner side of said instrument-board. The outside of said container1, 3, on its side nearest the instrulnent-board 12 has two bulged orraised portions a fitting said male screw members 11, which causes themain body of the container to be held away from` the instrument-board 12and permits the sealstrap l5 to pass entirely around the containerbetween said bulged or raised portions 3a. The container both at thefront and the back has a slot 14 therethrough for inserting thesealstrap 15. One of the ends of the container is entirely closed. Theother end is open for inserting the slide 6. The slide 6 is a planesurface except that at one end of the slide the metal `is flangedupwardly 7 and inwardly 8. Before being inserted into the open end ofthe container, the flat registration certificate or card 5, face-up, anda glass or isinglass strip 4 thereover, each having a slot in theirylower central portion conjugate with slot 13 of said slide and slot 14of said container, are placed on said slide one end of each of whichenters the` groove 20 of said slide fitting into the lower open corner 2of said outer container thereby entirely closing the open end of saidouter container. After the slide and contents are so inserted in saidouter container that the slots in each of the outer container, slide,card, or certificate, and isinglass are conjugate the seal-strap 15 isplaced across the front of said outer container, preferably with theseal 16 at the bottom central portion of said container and between saidtwo bulged members 3a, said seal-strap 15 is then passed tightly overthe upper edge of the container and down over the back thereof andbetween its back and the instrument-board 12, and between said bulgedmembers 3*, then brought forward through the lower central conjugateslot in the container, slide and certificate, where the end 17 thereofis sealed at perforations 18 and 19 with the seal 16.

Figure 3 shows a seal-strap and seal member. This is a standard seal,and is not claimed as new in this invention, the preterred type ofthemsealstrap and seal for the purposes intended is the Tyden seal, or'lyden car seal, or of that type. The matter on the seal-strap heiliglikely to be varied by the statutes ot the various Statesl using thiscontainer, no speeiiic lettering and numbering is suggested herein hutthe Space is left open for such code letters and numerals as may7 befariously provided tor in the different States statutes, or rules. Inthis connection it is distinctly required that the length of theseal-strap be only of sutlicient length to enable 4the seal to be oncefastened and sealed, and so that any after breaking thereof entirelyprevents its being again used by the same seal and sealstrap, and alsoprevents its being again drawn toget-her to eifect the appearance otbeing freshly sealed even in a cursory examination.

It will be observed it is absolutelyT impossible Without breaking up ordestroyingl the instru1nent-board, 12, or tearing up the container lcompletely, or breaking the seal 16, or the seal-strap 15, to get at thescrew members 11 and l() for the purpose of releasing and removingr themand thereby get at the inside of the container and to the certificate orcard.

The matter to be placed on the certificate or card is also not suggestedherein as that may be varied hy the ditlerent State:

statutes or rules where the container will be used.

From the description ot' the one-sheet at eompanying drawing and thespeeitication the advantages ot the making, construction, installing,operation and applying ot the device will be apparent to those skilledin the art to which my invention pertains; hut` it will be understoodthat any modifications within the scope of the claimed invention may bemade Without deliarting from the principle ot the invention, orsacrificing any ot its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed and desired to besecured by Letters Patent, is;

A metallic container, as described, having one open end, and comprisinga metallu-I slide having one L-shaped end slidably litting into saidopen end of said container, a certificate and a sheet ot isinglassther-cover, fitting in groove in said L-shaped end, and into saidcontainer, slots in lliront and back of said container and in saidslide, certificate and sheet ot isinglass conjugate with each other, aseal-strap passingr therethrough and around said container' betweenraised portions on hack thereof, and sealed taut around said containerby a metallicY seal, male and female screw members securely fasteningcontainer to instrumentboard of an automobile.

JACK BROVNE.

